With so much information saturating the corporate culture, employers are constantly on the lookout for new ways to get information to their employees by way of corporate communications. After all, even email has become a somewhat old-fashioned way of communicating, as more people use Blackberries and Web conferencing to give out information and pass messages to their employees. There are a number of innovative new ways that you can communicate with your employees. Two great ways include:

• Instant messaging: Almost every Web browser out there has an instant messaging feature these days and this can be a faster method of communicating than even email. Because the instant message alert pops up on the screen each time there is a message, this can be a quick way to communicate with employees working in the office as well as remotely. Beware of this option however: your employees may use it to chat about personal matters when they should be working.

• Snap Comm tools: One of the more unique methods of employer/employee communication on the market today, Snap Comm tools feature six distinct features that allow employers to get their message out to their employees without having to send a slew of individual messages. For example, the six Snap Comm channels include:

• Snap Poll: Want to know exactly what your employees think on a variety of issues? Let them take this quick and easy on-screen quiz that boasts an improved response rate because of its ease of use.

• Snap Ticker: Similar to what you see on CNN, these scrolling tickers will give your employees critical updates and disseminate important company information with the click of a button.

• Snap Quiz: On-screen quiz features will help you get an idea of where your employees might be weak in terms of company policy. There is an automated scoring option that takes the work out of getting all of the results.

• Snap Mag: A replacement for your company newsletter, this electronic version can help reduce the amount of group emails you have to send to virtually nothing.

• Snap Alert: These desktop alerts pop up on the screen as soon as you send out information that has to get to your employees NOW! This is the best way to ensure that your messages take priority over all of the other virtual clutter on your employee’s computer.

• Snap Shots: These screensavers act as billboards, broadcasting your message and ensuring that it is being reinforced every time your employee is forced to view it. A great way to get some core company concepts across.

Effective employee communication is the key to good management and communication between employers and their employees. Both of these methods will ensure that you are keeping up with changes in technology that allow you to communicate more easily with your employees and continue to strive for professional excellence and communication in your place of business.



By: Louis Wright FCS

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Everybody wants their homes to be more safe. If you would like to increase the level of your home security, you will have a lot of different innovations to help you in achieving your goal. There are many new and improved systems developed in the recent time that provide a better protection of your house and personal property. Especially there were many innovations in the field of communication that directly impact the products and services created for the home security industry. For example, most of the video cameras and audio equipment provide wireless capabilities nowadays. This means that you will no longer have to install a special wiring to connect your cameras to the receiving equipment. This will make the cameras, especially the hidden ones, a lot harder to find. The new system consists of three components: a video camera itself, a wireless transmitter (transmits the video stream signal to the receiving equipment, sometimes installed as a part of the camera) and a wireless receiver (receives the transmitted signal from the video camera and forwards the video stream directly into the receiving equipment).

Wireless cameras provide the possibility to transmit video information without cables. They are also easier to install and maintain but require some time to be spent on the configuration. There are other systems that use the advantages of the innovations in the communication industry. For example, wireless audio transmission can be implemented in addition to video transmission. Also, if you signed up for the alarm monitoring service, there are companies that allow the monitoring equipment to dial through the dedicated cellular link in a case of an emergency. This protects you from a situation when you are left unprotected during the time your regular phone lines are not working.

Scientific innovations contributed to the development of various home security systems and equipment. There are systems that will allow access only if a person provides the correct fingerprint or the eye signature. There are voice identification systems that will check if the voice of the person asking for access is indeed the voice of the authorized person. There are alarm systems that will detect the change in temperature or other scientific characteristic and will trigger an alarm if a change is detected. All of these systems are usually very expensive and are used if you are trying to protect something very valuable and expensive. Sometimes these protection measures are used to protect the information on home computers, assuming the information that is stored on the computer is extremely valuable. With time, however, the prices are expected to drop and many of the systems that are currently used only for the protection of expensive items or information will be used for the more common home security purposes. By then new and more advanced systems will be developed.

There are many home security innovation based on the general scientific discoveries and technological advancements. For example, the automated systems allow for a great deal of preprogrammed automation of most of your security equipment. With the automation system you can interconnect all of your security systems in one “all in one” system. In this case, for example, a triggered fire alarm can use the alarm security monitoring service to notify the fire department of the possible fire in progress. The motion detector outside of your house can trigger the video surveillance system and start the recording process when there is any movement detected. The motion detector will trigger the alarm in a case of a burglary if the door lock fails or a window is broken. A backup power supply is used to keep the security system running when the power shuts off for one reason or another. You can even connect all of your equipment to your personal computer and program the interaction of different security system components.

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By: Ava

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